Keeping global warming below 2°C: a feasible action plan
From accelerating electric technologies and smart carbon pricing to lowering capital costs and tackling the global food challenge, Adair Turner presents a politically feasible action plan to keep global warming well below 2°C without compromising growth.
This lecture – the final event in a special series on growth and climate change by Adair Turner – will outline an action agenda. Against the context of the multiple barriers to action outlined in the second lecture, Lord Turner sets out a politically feasible program of actions which could still limit global warming to well below 2°C.
In brief, this focuses on a range of initiatives: turbocharging the new electric technologies; deploying carbon pricing efficiently; reducing the cost of capital; and directly confronting the food challenge.
About the series
This deep-dive lecture series also includes:
- Lecture one - Abundant clean energy for all: the technological opportunity
- Lecture two - Barriers to climate action: transitional costs, distributional issues and politics
Recordings of this special event series and accompanying resources will be made available to download, subject to no technical issues.
Meet our speaker and chair
Adair Turner (@AdairTurnerUK) has served in a number of prominent public roles in the UK, including as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the Committee on Climate Change, the Pensions Commission and the Low Pay Commission. He has also served as the Director General of the Confederation of British Industry.
Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government and the inaugural Chair of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE. His latest book is A Growth Story for the 21st Century: building sustainable, resilient and equitable development.
More about this event
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